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AUSTIN
MAKASARE

Node.jsPostgreSQLRedisDocker

OPEN FOR FREELANCE / FULL-TIME

BASED IN INDIA
REMOTE-READY

Backend Infrastructure Architecture Diagram
REAL-TIME · FAULT-TOLERANT
SYSTEMS: DISTRIBUTED

Full products, shipped solo —
design, build & deploy.

DESIGN & CODE BY AUSTIN

I ship complete products, solo — architecture to deployment.

FULL STACK
ENGINEER

BACKEND&APIs
SYSTEMS&INFRA
7.5K
PEAK CONCURRENT WS
100%
SOLO-BUILT END-TO-END
2YR
INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE
// ABOUT ME

BUILDING THINGS THAT DON'T BREAK.

I'm a backend engineer and MSc Computer Science student building production-grade systems, from distributed job queues to APIs battle-tested under real concurrent load.

My work focuses on the unglamorous but critical parts of software: queues that don't lose jobs, locks that don't deadlock, infrastructure that auto-scales. I care about reliability, not just features: the kind of backend you don't get paged for at 3am.

Node.jsTypeScriptPostgreSQLRedisBullMQNext.jsPrismaAWSDockerREST APIsEvent-drivenSystem Design
// HOW I BUILD

FIRST PRINCIPLES.

Everything I ship derives from five core axioms. They decide the trade-offs before the first line of code.

01

RELIABILITY OVER FEATURES.

A feature that fails silently is worse than one that never shipped.

02

DESIGN FOR FAILURE.

Networks partition, disks fill, processes die — every system assumes the worst path.

03

IDEMPOTENCY IS NON-NEGOTIABLE.

An operation is safe to run twice, or it does not ship.

04

OBSERVABILITY BY DEFAULT.

You cannot fix what you cannot see — logs, metrics, and traces ship with the feature.

05

SIMPLE SCALES.

The most scalable system is the one you can still reason about at 3am.

PRINCIPLES ARE CHEAP. HERE'S THE PROOF.

// SELECTED WORK

WHAT I'VE SHIPPED.

QUIZBUZZ
BACKEND · REAL-TIME · INFRA · 2024–2026

QUIZBUZZ

Multi-tenant quiz platform load-tested to 7,500 concurrent WebSocket users against a 10K-user architecture — built solo end-to-end, from architecture to load testing.

Node.jsTypeScriptSocket.IOBullMQRedisPostgreSQLAWSTerraformk6
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SMARTFORMFLOW
FULLSTACK · SAAS · ASYNC · 2025–2026

SMARTFORMFLOW

Multi-tenant event SaaS — payments, automated certificates, and WhatsApp delivery, engineered around async workers and global contact deduplication.

Node.jsTypeScriptExpressBullMQPrismaPostgreSQLNext.jsRazorpayDocker
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Skills

Distributed Systems Queue Architecture

SYSTEMS.

Distributed job queues, Redis-backed locking, event-driven architecture, and fault-tolerant async pipelines.

Backend API Server Architecture

BACKEND.

Node.js APIs at scale, PostgreSQL with Prisma ORM, RESTful design, authentication, and real-time WebSocket layers.

Cloud Infrastructure Node Instance

INFRA.

AWS auto-scaling, Docker containerization, CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, and zero-downtime deployments.

// NOW
🏗BUILDING
SmartFormFlow — adding multi-step conditional logic and a real-time split-pane form preview
📖LEARNING
Distributed systems design — reading Designing Data-Intensive Applications
📍STATUS
Open to SDE-2 / senior backend roles · Remote preferred · India OK

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